First let me say I am very new to sailing. My wife and I went out today in what looked to our inexperianced eyes to be 6' to 10' seas, no other boats went out, just a few stink potters who turned back as soon as they left the channel. She handled fine under only the main, after an hour my wife was a little green so we turned back. We enjoyed the experiance, and learned not to fear high seas in this little lady. The question is where should we keep our anchor? Had we had it on deck today we would surly have lost it. However, had we needed it the deck was tossing to the point I do not believe it would have been safe for me to take it forward and attatch it and deploy. Why didn't Oday provide an anchor locker on boats that may encounter heavy weather. Perhaps they believed these little girls were stable enough for even amatures to go through heavy seas and high winds and the little girl would compensate for their inexperiance. I do not want to reinvent the wheel, so any advice or methods you have employed will be greatly appreciated. bill
Anchor storage forward on 25
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try a messenger line
Run a line from your boweye to a cleat that you can reach from the cockpit and secure this line at both ends. Store your anchor in a cockpit locker where you can reach it. Tie the bitter end of the rode (anchor line) off somewhere strong where you can reach it from the cockpit. A midship or stern cleat is ideal. Now here is the tricky part. Using a snap hook or carabiner link both the anchor line and the fixed line together so that both lines can run freely through the snaphook or carabiner. The furthest the carabiner will slide forward is the boweye, and the furthest it will slide back is the attachment at the back end of the stern line. Deploy your anchor over the edge. As it touches bottom and starts at first dragging then grabbing as more anchor line is let out, the carbiner will slide forward until it stops at the boweye. Cleat off the anchor line to any reachable cleat from the cockpit, and although the load is here, the direction of pull is transmitted through the carbiner at the bow. Your boat will ride bow to as if the anchor was secured at the bow. To retrieve the anchor, start pulling up on the anchor line. Eventually it will come up off the bottom up towards the bow, then as you continue to pull in the anchor line, the carbiner will slide back until it and the anchor are adjacent and with in reach from the cockpit. Pull it in and uncleat the snaphook or carbiner and stow your anchor. Leave your boweye to midship cleat line attached for the next time you have to deploy your anchor in rough seas. Make sure this line runs outside of all shrouds, and just below the gunwale.
Run a line from your boweye to a cleat that you can reach from the cockpit and secure this line at both ends. Store your anchor in a cockpit locker where you can reach it. Tie the bitter end of the rode (anchor line) off somewhere strong where you can reach it from the cockpit. A midship or stern cleat is ideal. Now here is the tricky part. Using a snap hook or carabiner link both the anchor line and the fixed line together so that both lines can run freely through the snaphook or carabiner. The furthest the carabiner will slide forward is the boweye, and the furthest it will slide back is the attachment at the back end of the stern line. Deploy your anchor over the edge. As it touches bottom and starts at first dragging then grabbing as more anchor line is let out, the carbiner will slide forward until it stops at the boweye. Cleat off the anchor line to any reachable cleat from the cockpit, and although the load is here, the direction of pull is transmitted through the carbiner at the bow. Your boat will ride bow to as if the anchor was secured at the bow. To retrieve the anchor, start pulling up on the anchor line. Eventually it will come up off the bottom up towards the bow, then as you continue to pull in the anchor line, the carbiner will slide back until it and the anchor are adjacent and with in reach from the cockpit. Pull it in and uncleat the snaphook or carbiner and stow your anchor. Leave your boweye to midship cleat line attached for the next time you have to deploy your anchor in rough seas. Make sure this line runs outside of all shrouds, and just below the gunwale.
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